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National Fire Protection Association
Industry: Fire safety
Number of terms: 98780
Number of blossaries: 0
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Established in 1896, NFPA's mission is to reduce the worldwide burden of fire and other hazards on the quality of life by providing and advocating consensus codes and standards, research, training, and education.
A device for receiving and re-transmitting one-way or two-way communication signals.
Industry:Fire safety
A device for reducing the size of solid fuels.
Industry:Fire safety
A device for stopping the progress of a flame front in burner mixture lines (flashback) and for automatically shutting off the fuel-air mixture.
Industry:Fire safety
A device for supplying a controlled amount of raw fuel.
Industry:Fire safety
A device for the final conveyance of gas, or a mixture of gas and air, to the combustion zone.
Industry:Fire safety
A device for the quick diversion of material or air to the exterior of a building or other safe location in the event of a fire.
Industry:Fire safety
A device for transferring pulverized fuel between zones of different pressure without permitting appreciable flow of air or gas in either direction.
Industry:Fire safety
A device for use in applications requiring special water discharge patterns, directional spray, or other unusual discharge characteristics.
Industry:Fire safety
A device for vaporizing water from partly dewatered and finely divided sludge through contact with a current of hot gas or superheated vapor that includes a squirrel-cage mill for separating the sludge cake into fine particles.
Industry:Fire safety
A device in which detection is continuous along a path. Typical examples are rate-of-rise pneumatic tubing detectors, projected beam smoke detectors, and heat-sensitive cable.
Industry:Fire safety